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County Business Patterns, 1999 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data (ICPSR 3439)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

The total number of business establishments, mid-March
employment figures, and first quarter and annual payrolls are supplied
in this data collection at the county, state, and national
levels. Also provided are data on the number of establishments by
employment-size class. Data are provided for most divisions of the
economy, including agricultural services, mining, construction,
manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale trade,
retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and s... (more info)

The total number of business establishments, mid-March
employment figures, and first quarter and annual payrolls are supplied
in this data collection at the county, state, and national
levels. Also provided are data on the number of establishments by
employment-size class. Data are provided for most divisions of the
economy, including agricultural services, mining, construction,
manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale trade,
retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and services. However,
data are not included for agriculture production, railroad,
government, or household employment.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County Business Patterns, 1999 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data. ICPSR03439-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03439.v1

Universe:
All business establishments with one or more paid
employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties,
excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household
employment. All government hospitals are included beginning with 1989
data.

Data Types:
aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

The data are supplied in three files: United
States Summary Data (Part 1), State Summary Data (Part 2), and County
Summary Data (Part 3). The county summary data are now in one file,
sorted alphabetically by state and within state by county.

Methodology

Sample:
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Data Source:

Business Register, Annual Company Organization Survey,
Annual Survey of Manufactures, Current Business Surveys, United States
Internal Revenue Service administrative records, and the Social
Security Administration

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2003-05-16

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.